Navigation Question

I have an internet presence site that i am working on within Sharepoint 2007. After much help from the group here, i have finally figured out master pages. Just a question for my curiosity regarding navigation. Looking at the TopNavFlyOut.master in the _catalogs _master pages directory (using Sharepoint Designer). For the navigation bar the data source is Sitemapdatasource1. where is this file located? Can it be modified? Would VS2005 be better for working with this file? What format is the file in?

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The Data source being used cannot be modified as such. Depending on what you want to do you can simply change the data source to be an XmlDataSource. If you use SPD and add an AspNetMenu control you can associate it with any number of data sources. Remember also you can programmatically add links to the navigation. I have a couple of posts at my blog about it.

I have a portal site with several team sites under the main page. Eachteam site has several document libraries. When I look at the "editnavigation page" for the team sites, it says to show subsites and showpages, the top nav bar says to display the navigation of the parentsite and the left side nav bar says to "display the current site, thenavigation items below the current site, and the current site'ssiblings". In the box below that it shows the names of the variousdocument libraries.

But when I look at the home page of the team site, all I see on the leftnav bar is a link for "documents". It goes to the document library listpage. But shouldn't I see the individual libraries as they are listedin the edit navigation page? This occurs aross all of the team sitesthroughout the entire farm. Is this a SharePoint problem or did we setsomething up wrong? Is there a way to make these document library namesshow up in the navigation for the home page of the each team site?

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